Health & Fitness

I’m a huge fan of the new song by Pharell Williams, Happy. I’m not sure if it’s possible to listen to the song or watch the video without a smile on your face. It’s four minutes and six seconds of pure happiness. I find it a great way to start my day…especially when I get up and do the “happy dance” while I listen.
But is that enough to be truly happy? While the song is a great mood booster and an awesome pick-me-up, it alone can’t sustain my happiness. Which then begs the question, “What will make me truly happy?”
Since I do a lot of work in the field of emotional intelligence (it’s what drives our success, growth and fulfillment in work and life) with my clients, I actually know what does sustain happiness for the long-term. In...

If you’re like most people, you do it at least 1,095 times a year and you do it WRONG. And each time you do it wrong, you compromise your health, energy and longevity. I have to admit that I did it wrong for a large portion of my life. It’s easy to do it the way everyone else is doing it. But if you do, you’ll have a one in three chance of developing diabetes and a one in four chance of dying from cardiovascular disease.
Of course, I’m talking about eating; something fundamental to our existence. Most of us eat at least three times a day. And with each bite, we are feeding ourselves something that will either fuel our body for optimal performance or something that will slowly poison and destroy us.
I could go on a food rant here. But for now, I’m going...

Changing yourself or your circumstances takes courage. Plain and simple; it’s hard. And the bigger the change, typically the more courage and effort it takes. Trust me, I know. I’ve left a spouse, I’ve left careers, I’ve left companies I founded, I’ve left partners and I’ve even left my life (as I knew it). And I never left because things were bad. In fact, by most people’s standards, including my own, the things I left were good.
But I made a commitment to myself years ago that I was not willing to settle for ‘good enough.’ Life is too short and my passions are too deep to short-change either. And to me, ‘good enough’ is the biggest obstacle to ‘amazing.’ Aren’t we all worth having an amazing life? An amazing career? An amazing...